News Archive
30/7/2020
Cbi Scotland Happy For School Return But No Reprieve For Offices
Tracy Black, CBI Scotland Director, said:"Getting children safely back to school is important for families and a critical aspect of Scotland's economic recovery. Not only will it help parents and carers get back to work, but it's also essential to ensuring we don’t impede the development and wellbeing of children.29/7/2020
Eat Out To Help Out - Look For The Logo - Up To £10 Off Every Meal Mon - Wed
Lots of Caithness Eating Places Have already signed up. Diners who eat-in will benefit from a 50% discount, up to a maximum of £10 per person, on food and non-alcoholic drinks, any Monday to Wednesday in August.
29/7/2020
Openreach Unveils Largest Ever Hard To Reach Full Fibre Build In Scotland
Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses to benefit in 60 Scottish towns, villages and rural areas. Openreach today 29 October 2020 outlined plans to make ultra-reliable and gigabit-capable Full Fibre broadband available to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in 60 small and rural towns and villages across Scotland.
29/7/2020
Local Scottish Furlough Figures Show National Jobs Challenge
Governments should roll-out extra help in event of local lockdowns Employers in Highland, Perth and Kinross, Glasgow, South Ayrshire and Stirling council areas furloughed a larger share of workers than operators in other Scottish local authorities, according to HMRC statistics. However, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Scotland has highlighted that between 23 per cent and 34 per cent of eligible workers were furloughed across every Scottish council area.
29/7/2020
Right Care, Right Place In Scotland
NHS Pharmacy First Scotland offers expert help in the community. People will be able to get healthcare advice and support to treat minor illnesses and common conditions in their local community following the launch of a new service.29/7/2020
200,000 Households In Scotland Have Invested In Their Property During Lockdown With A View To Selling
With the announcement that stamp duty is being paused on properties up to £500,000, many people in the UK may be looking to put in an offer on their dream property. If you've been making improvements to your home to increase its sale value, you're not alone.29/7/2020
Further Funding For Tourism in Scotland
Two new funding packages worth £15 million will support the tourism sector as it continues to feel the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. A £14 million Hotel Recovery Programme will help to secure up to 3,000 jobs at Scotland's larger hotels until the start of the summer 2021 tourism season.29/7/2020
Skin Creams Dried On Fabric Can Lead To Fire Deaths
A new campaign to raise awareness of the fire risk and the precautions that need to be taken by users of skin creams has been launched today. Some skin creams, when dried on to fabric, can create a highly flammable combination that can cause serious injury and death, regulators warn today.29/7/2020
GDP Quarterly National Accounts for 2020 Quarter 1
Scotland's GDP is confirmed to have fallen by 2.5% during the first quarter of 2020, according to statistics announced today by the Chief Statistician. The change in the latest quarter has not been revised from the first estimate published on 17 June 2020.28/7/2020
The Truth Will Out - Understanding Labour Market Statistics During The Coronavirus Crisis
Mike Brewer, Laura Gardiner and Karl Handscomb wrting for the Resolution Foundation. Labour market statistics matter.
28/7/2020
Coronavirus: How Countries Aim To Get The Vaccine First By Cutting Opaque Supply Deals
From the Conversation website - Author Duncan Matthews Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary University of London. The University of Oxford recently published promising news about the results from the phase one/two trials of the vaccine it is developing for COVID-19.
28/7/2020
The New £2bn Tax On The Frail Planned: Online Shoppers Must Not Be The Fall Guys Who Pay The Government's Covid Bill
The Chancellor is reportedly contemplating a new online sales tax to raise £2 billion a year to create a "sustainable and meaningful revenue source for the government". The home delivery expert ParcelHero says Britain's increasing army of online shoppers must not be duped into paying the cost of Covid.
28/7/2020
Lockdown Labour Market Deep Freeze Eases - But The Big Redundancies Test Is Yet To Come
The deep impact of lockdown restrictions eased slightly in May as some employees returned from furlough and self-employed workers increased their hours. But the true scale of Britain's jobs crisis won't be known until the Government’s Job Retention Scheme is phased out in the months ahead, the Resolution Foundation said in response to the latest ONS labour market statistics.28/7/2020
Covid-19 Raises Risk Of Public-sector Fraud
Scotland's public finances have been boosted after a data-sharing exercise identified over £15 million of potential fraud and errors across the public sector. But auditors have warned that the Covid-19 pandemic has brought additional fraud risks.
28/7/2020
Covid-19: Emerging Fraud Risks
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought significant challenges across the Scottish public sector as bodies seek to deliver services for individuals, communities and businesses in an extremely difficult time. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought significant challenges across the Scottish public sector.
28/7/2020
UK Households Have Experienced The Biggest Immediate Income Shock Since The Mid-1970s
Policy response has massively boosted poorest households' incomes, but further shocks lie ahead. The covid-induced crisis has caused typical working-age household incomes to fall 4.5 per cent between the pre-crisis period and May this year, despite the critical policy support that has cushioned the shock for millions of households, according to the Resolution Foundation's Living Standards Audit published on Tuesday 21st July 2020.28/7/2020
Men's And Women's Time Use Is Converging - But A New Income Divide Is Emerging
Gender differences in the amount of paid and unpaid work people do have shrunk over the past four decades, while the gap between low- and high-income households has grown to create a new ‘working time inequality', according to a major new report published today (Tuesday 28 July 2020) by the Resolution Foundation. The time of our lives, supported by Trust for London, explores changes in people's time use over the past four decades, how these shifts differ by gender, geography and household income level, and where these trends may head in post-covid Britain.
28/7/2020
Household Consumption And Saving Across The UK - Some New Data
ONS have recently released some new experimental regional data which look at how households spend their money. These data are still in development, so users are advised to use them with caution at this time.
28/7/2020
Does the government know how to get value from consultants?
From The Institute for Government. Government spending on consultants was rising again in the wake of Brexit, and its response to Covid has seen that trend accelerate.28/7/2020
